The term crack is used to signify stories that are so strangely insane they can only be written and read under the influence of heavy drugs, i.e., you'd have to be on crack cocaine in order to think up things like this. Of course after being in fandom for a while, many of these ideas seem perfectly normal.

The relationship between fans and Crackfic, too, is one of a loving addiction.

'Crackfic' is less a genre of fanfiction and more a categorisation based on its premise. 'Crackfic' is fanfiction whose scenario is a marked departure from the reality of the original text (in this case, Supernatural).

Crackfic is a thriving genre in Supernatural fanfiction, arguably because of the permissibility of the canon, wherein these out-of-the-ordinary things happen as a matter of course.

This list was started in 2006, when fandom was small. Obviously the number of fics in these categories now is huge. To find more recent examples visit Rec Communities.

CrackList

WARNINGS AND DISCLAIMER:

The stories linked here may contain sexually explicit material. Stories will provide specific warnings, ratings and disclaimers in their header, please take the responsibility of paying attention to those.

Notes on contributing:

The following fics are examples of the different crack genres. It is open for editing and additions, just:

follow the existing format

sort by first posted date, i.e. the date of first posting for the first chapter of a serial

link to the posters journal or website if possible, rather than a community post.

Gender Swap

Gender Swap fics cover a wide range of situations. Most often a curse/supernatural being turns a character into the other gender temporarily. There are also fics where one of the chacrters was always a different gender - for example see Winsister fic. Finally, there are a few fics where a character is transgendered.

2009-10-03 / I'm in an Impala by mediocrechick (In the tradition of "I'm On A Boat")

Bad!fic

We've all read fic that made our brains ache, but that usually wasn't the author's original intention. bad!fic is a genre of purposefully horrific fic. These stories set out to assault the reader with horrendous pairings, clusters of cliches and general abuse of the language.